The Catherine Elizabeth Blair Memorial Foundation supports innovative neuroblastoma research in institutions across the US and internationally.  

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August 2023: $25,000 grant in partnership with the Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation for "Drugging MYCN," a project to develop targeted drugs for the MYCN protein.  The multi-disciplinary research team is led by Yael Mosse at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.  

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December 2022: $25,000 grant to Dr. Anthony Sandler at Children's National for "Driving Towards a Novel Neuroblastoma Clinical Trial." After FDA and review board approval, the research we have been funding for years will begin recruiting for a clinical trial. 

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December 2021: $36,000 grant to Dr. Kelly Goldsmith and Dr. Thomas Cash at Emory University in Atlanta for NANT 2017-01, A Phase 1 Study of 131 I-MIBG with Dinutuximab +/- Vorinostat for Relapsed/Refractory Neuroblastoma. This ongoing study is looking at MIBG treatment in combination with a monoclonal antibody, Dinutuximab.  

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Update 8/22 Click here to read an update on this research:

 November 2021: $25,000 grant to Dr. Anthony Sandler at Children's National for "Accelerating Research Towards Neuroblastoma Treatments" - the translational stage is the final step before a clinical trial of the cell vaccine.

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Update 3/21  Click here to read a press release about this grant:

December 2020: $25,000 grant to Dr. Anthony Sandler at Children's National for "Moving the Dial on Neuroblastoma Research and Treatment" - continuing the team's vaccine research, moving towards clinical trials.

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$100,000 in grants: Advancing Breakthroughs in Neuroblastoma Research and Care: Each year from 2015-2019 we granted $25,000 to Dr. Anthony Sandler's research lab at Children's National in Washington, DC for his work on immune-based tumor vaccine therapy.  

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$25,000 Grant: Fully Human Glypican-2 Targeting Bispecifics for the Treatment of Neuroblastoma: In 2018, we granted $25,000 to Dr. Colin Correnti at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Institute in Seattle, with key collaborator Julie Park, MD at Seattle Children's Hospital for an immunotherapy project creating clinic-ready antibodies to be used in future research.  

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$20,000 Grant: Phase I/II Clinical Trial for Neuroblastoma with ALK Mutations: In 2016, we granted $20,000 in collaboration with a multi-charity group brought together by Solving Kids' Cancer to open a multi-institution trial of a tumor-inhibiting drug driven by ALK mutations.